=STEGAVORTO=

 The Game That Came To James In A Dream

==STORY==

Last tuesday night I had a dream.
In this dream, Michael Sweet,
frontman of 1980's glam-rock hair-band "Stryper" appeared to me...
except he was wearing a business suit...
and standing on the front lawn of a public library...
and he challenged me to play a game,
a strange game that I had never played before.
When I awoke I knew that I had to program it...

==RUNNING THE GAME==

On Windows run the installer exe and follow the instructions

On Mac OS X, open the disk image and drag StegaVorto.app into your Applications

Othewise open a terminal / console and "cd" to the game directory and run:

  python stegavorto.py

==HOW TO PLAY THE GAME==

Click on letters to spell out secret words.

Your score will be higher if the distance between letters is smaller

==LICENSE==

(C) Copyright 2008 James Paige & Hamster Republic Productions
This is Free Software released under the terms of the GPL
See LICENSE.txt for details

==CREDITS==

The texts "Present at a Hanging and other Ghost Stories" by Ambrose Bierce,
"Through the Looking Glass" by Lewis Carroll, and "The Innocents Abroad"
by Mark Twain are all in the public domain.

Music "My Life Changed" is (C) Copyright 2003 Colin Mutchler & Cora Beth
Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 2.0 Generic

Dynamic image search provided thanks to the magic of http://www.picsearch.com/
Please support their sponsors!

Reward kittens for offline-mode courtesy of Genny Obodo. Support your local
animal shelter!

Word lists are derived from the wamerican package as distributed by Ubuntu

Programming by James Paige, with big thanks to the developers of python+pygame

Inspiration by the ethereal visage of Michael Sweet

==DEPENDENCIES==

If you are installing the source code, you might need to install some of
these before running the game:

* Python:        http://python.org/
* PyGame:        http://pygame.org/

==SOURCE CODE==

Look for th latest source code at:
http://james.hamsterrepublic.com/?p=130

Or you can get it with Subversion from svn://gilgamesh.HamsterRepublic.com/hamster/stegavorto
